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Last updated on
Jun 17, 2025
- Stock Contributor User guide
- Why contribute to Adobe Stock
- Create and manage your account
- Legal guidelines
- Content requirements
- Content Policy: Artist Names, real known people, fictional characters
- Vector requirements
- Single icons and icon sheets
- Video requirements
- Generative AI requirements
- PNG files with transparency requirements
- Illustrative editorial requirements
- Motion graphics templates requirements
- Design template requirements
- Premium and 3D collections
- Diverse and Inclusive content guidelines
- Photo and illustration requirements
- Prepare and upload your content
- Describe your content effectively
- Review process
- Payment and taxes
Get details here on royalty rates, payment for Free Collection Works and Supplemental Works, and our bonus program for active Adobe Stock Contributors.
Details on how to request payment on Adobe Stock can be found here: helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/getting-paid.html.
These Pricing and Payment Details are incorporated by reference into the Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.
The below royalty rates apply to assets licensed under Adobe Stock standard plans, such as subscriptions, credit packs, and on-demand licenses.
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Royalty Rate* |
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Photos Vectors Illustrations |
33% |
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Video |
35% |
*The royalty rate is applied to the net price per licensed asset, based on the U.S. purchase price and including any discounts. For example, if the plan costs US$29.99 per month for 10 monthly photo licenses, then the royalty amount (rounded up to the nearest cent) would be US$0.99 per licensed photo (US$29.99 / 10 photos x 33%). Note: actual royalty calculations may not be rounded to the nearest cent.
Adobe Stock also licenses assets through custom agreements and non-standard plans, such as Adobe Express plans and Pro Edition plans for Creative Cloud for teams and enterprise. Royalty rates for assets licensed under these agreements and plans are either: (A) for non-video assets, 33% of the attributable amount, and for video content, 35% of the attributable amount; or (B) a flat rate. For clarity, you will not be paid a royalty for licenses of assets in the free collection.
Minimum royalty amounts
The following minimum royalty amounts apply to standard assets licensed under the Adobe Stock Large Subscription (350 standard assets per month or larger). Standard assets include standard photos, vectors, and illustrations.
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Lifetime Licenses* |
Minimum Royalty Amount (per licensed standard asset) |
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0-999 |
$0.33 |
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1,000-9,999 |
$0.36 |
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10,000 and above |
$0.38 |
Bonus Program
For our active Contributors, based on the number of downloads your photos, illustrations, vectors, templates and videos receive during the 2024 calendar year, you can earn complimentary access to one of the following plans for one year: Adobe Creative Cloud, Creative Cloud Photography (20GB), Illustrator Single App, InDesign Single App, Premiere Pro Single App, or After Effects Single App.1
Here are the details:
- If you had between 350 and 6,999 downloads during the 2024 calendar year, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for Creative Cloud Photography (20GB), Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, or After Effects.
- If you had 7,000 or more downloads in 2024, you qualified to receive a complimentary code for a one-year plan for an Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Only Contributors active in 2024 are eligible for the opportunity. To be considered active, you must have uploaded and had approved a minimum of 150 new assets.
- Please note that video downloads are equal to 3 downloads in consideration of the qualification.
- If you are eligible for the bonus opportunity you can expect to see the blue banner in the Contributor Portal with your redemption code on January 14, 2025.
1 No signup necessary. An active contributor is an Adobe Stock contributor with at least 150 assets submitted and approved qualifying assets in 2024. Contributors located in countries where the apps are not available are excluded from the Bonus Program.
2 Adobe employees are excluded from the bonus program.
Free Collection Payment
This section applies only to Works that you have nominated, and Adobe has accepted, for inclusion in the Free Collection, as described in the Free Collection Addendum below.
Capitalized but undefined terms below are defined in the Free Collection Addendum.
For each Work Adobe places in the Free Collection, Adobe will pay you per the below table.
Credits will be deposited to your applicable Adobe Stock contributor account within 30 days after the start of each Free Period, with credits converting according to the currency associated with that account, as described at helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/getting-paid.html.
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Asset type |
For Each Work Placed in the Free Collection in 2025 for a One-year Free Period |
For Each Work Placed in the Free Collection for a Perpetual Free Period |
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Design Templates |
Single payment of 5 credits |
N/A |
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Photos |
Single payment of 4 credits |
Single payment of 10 credits |
Free Collection Addendum
This addendum (“Addendum”) to the Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement (“Contributor Agreement”) applies to Works that you submit to Adobe for Free Collection consideration. This Addendum replaces previous Free Collection addenda.
By clicking “Agree”, you agree that:
Process
1. “Free Collection” is a collection of Adobe Stock assets that may be offered as “free content” as described in the Contributor Agreement.
2. “Free Period” is a One-Year Free Period, a Perpetual Free Period or a Renewal Period, each as defined below.
3. A “Submission Period” is any time period in which Adobe enables you to review, edit and submit Works for consideration to be included in the Free Collection.
4. Your indication that a Work is “nominated” means you are submitting that Work for consideration to be included in the Free Collection in exchange for Payment (as defined below) either:
a. for one year from the date a submitted Work is first placed in the Free Collection (“One-Year Free Period”); or
b. in perpetuity from the date a submitted Work is first placed in the Free Collection (“Perpetual Free Period”).
5 During a Submission Period, you may review and edit your Works submission choices until the applicable submission deadline posted in the Adobe Stock contributor portal (“Submission Deadline”), after which your submission will be sent to Adobe for consideration for the Free Collection.
6. Adobe may – but is not required to – place any Work you submit for consideration into the Free Collection.
Payment
7. For each Work Adobe places in the Free Collection, Adobe will pay you as described in the Free Collection Payment section of the Pricing and Payment Details at helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/royalty-details.html (or a successor URL); (each, a "Payment").
8. Credits will be deposited to your applicable Adobe Stock Contributor account within 30 days after the start of each Free Period, with credits converting according to the currency associated with that account, as described at helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/getting-paid.html.
9. For clarity, any Work that is not placed into, or that is removed from, the Free Collection is subject to the applicable payment terms in the Contributor Agreement.
One-Year Free Period, Perpetual Free Period, and Auto-Renewal
10. During the One-Year Free Period or Perpetual Free Period, as applicable, you designate the Work as “free content” as described in the Contributor Agreement.
11. Following any One-Year Free Period, Adobe may – but is not required to – elect to keep any Work in the Free Collection for successive one-year periods (each, a “Renewal Period”) as described herein.
12. Adobe will give you prior notice and an opportunity to opt-out of including Works in the Free Collection for the next Renewal Period.
13. Adobe may manage this notice and opt-out process through email, the contributor portal, or other communication methods it chooses.
14. During a Free Period:
a. you will not be owed any additional payment for Free Collection Works beyond the Payment;
b. without limiting Adobe’s rights under the Contributor Agreement, Adobe may use Free Collection Works to create compilation and/or derivative content (“Compilation Content”); and
c. Compilation Content may be offered to users through Adobe’s applications and services (including any past, current and/or future versions or releases).
Removal of Works
15. During a Free Period, you will not remove any Free Collection Work from your Adobe Stock portfolio unless technically or legally required to do so (in which case you will notify Adobe of the need for removal by sending an email to contributor-support@adobe.com).
16. Any license to a Free Collection Work granted to Adobe’s users or to Adobe prior to the removal of that Work from the Free Collection will survive. To the extent any Work is removed from the Free Collection, Adobe may continue to issue licenses to such Work as “free content,” to the extent necessary to honor reasonable user expectations, such as to allow users who have a comp version of such Work (e.g., a preview sample) to obtain the usage license offered at the time the comp version was acquired. If there is a conflict between this Addendum and the Contributor Agreement, this Addendum governs solely as to (A) Works submitted for consideration in the Free Collection; (B) Free Collection Works during a Free Period; and (C) Compilation Content.
Effective as of May 19, 2025
Supplemental Work Payment
This section applies to Supplemental Work. Adobe will pay you the amount offered in your contributor account for Supplemental Work.
Credits will be deposited to your applicable Adobe Stock contributor account no later than 30 days from use by Adobe, with credits converting according to 1 USD, as described at helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/getting-paid.html.
Supplemental Work Addendum
This addendum (“Addendum”) to the Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement (“Contributor Agreement”), applies to “Supplemental Work”, which is Work submitted by you to fulfill a content and/or services request from Adobe, and which Adobe accepts.
You agree that:
1. Adobe may notify you of a content and/or services request in your contributor account, email or other method with guidelines for submission (“Supplemental Work Request”).
2. You may submit Work to be considered by Adobe for the Supplemental Work Request during the “Submission Period”, which is any time period in which Adobe enables you to submit Work.
3. Adobe may accept your Work as a Supplemental Work at any time following the Submission Period. Adobe is not obligated to accept submitted Work as Supplemental Work.
4. Adobe will pay the amount offered in the Supplemental Work Request as full and final compensation for use of the Supplemental Work.
5. Supplemental Work may not be withdrawn by you, unless technically or legally required to do so (in which case you will notify Adobe of the need for removal by sending an email to contributor-support@adobe.com).
6. Supplemental Work Requests are confidential, and their details may not be shared by you with third parties.
7. In the event of a concern or dispute, you agree to resolve such concern or dispute pursuant to the dispute resolution process terms and/or any other applicable terms set forth in the Adobe Terms of Use.
8. If there is a conflict between this Addendum and the Contributor Agreement, this Addendum governs solely as to Work submitted for consideration as Supplemental Work.
Effective as of October 22, 2024
